dipper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a ladle that has a cup with a long handle
  2. noun a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
    Little Dipper.
  3. noun a group of seven bright stars in the constellation Ursa Major
    Wagon; Wain; Charles's Wain; Big Dipper; Plough.
  4. noun small North American diving duck; males have bushy head plumage
    bufflehead; butterball; Bucephela albeola.
  5. noun small stocky diving bird without webbed feet; frequents fast-flowing streams and feeds along the bottom
    water ouzel.

WordNet

Dip"per noun
Definitions
  1. One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.
  2. (Zoöl.) (a) A small grebe; the dabchick. (b) The buffel duck. (c) The water ouzel (Cinolus aquaticus) of Europe. (d) The American dipper or ouzel (Cinclus Mexicanus).

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